On Tuesday 5 August at Thonon-les-Bains, shortly before 8 am, a man of about 30, in only a few minutes, committed major acts of vandalisme in the church of Saint-Hippolyte and in the adjacent basilica of Saint-François-de-Sales: with exceptional force, the person overturned and broke two altars, the candelabras and lecterns, destroyed statues, tore down a tabernacle, twisted a massive bronze cross, smashed in a sacristy door and even broke some stained-glass windows.

According to the priest Le Tué, it was a "young Muslim", but the hypothesis of a religious motivation still has to be confirmed.

... according to the Thonon priest "there is desecration but also sacrilege, since the Eucharist (hosts)* were trampled on."

* These are wafers that Catholics eat during the Mass ceremony; they signify the body of Christ.

I looked at quite a few news reports of this incident. This is the only one I could find that includes the quote about the perpetrator being a Muslim. One other mentions that he was "of Tunisian origin" and says "he was talking about heaven and hell". All the other reports, and the police themselves, simply describe him as a "mentally unbalanced individual".

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Florida, USA - If someone burns a koran, the muzzie world will fly into rage, resulting in riots and murder. What will be the reaction to this desecration of a sacred Christian church? Our ancestors knew better than to allow muzzies into Europe. Now the beauty of Western culture and the European people will be sacrificed on the alter of political correctness; all people are the same inside, all cultures are equal and worthy of respect, all religions are of equal value, etc.

We are dealing with people who live in the Stone Age and want to destroy everything that is not like them. Why can't people see this along with the fact that the Jews are the canaries in the coal mine. The Louvre, Versailles and every other museum will be under their siege in due time if we allow them to. We in America think it is only Europe that is under fire - well, keep on hiding, but may I suggest, you don't stop watching!!!

There will be no art or history left if we do not stop them. We've seen what they do to Hindu temples, Buddhist statues, Christian churches. Even in their own country when they find some Sumerian or Babylonian archaeological sit they smash it. They will wipe history clean, destroy every manuscript, statue, building, fossil, every archaelogical site, every book, library, museum. We will have no idea where we came from anymore! Everyone that makes any excuses for Islam is as guilty as any jihadi.

I totally agree. These people have not changed and their views can't be changed no matter how many Western degrees they achieve. They have archaic views of the West and any religion but theirs. God help us all if they keep gaining ground in our cultures. They just elected a Muslim mayor in London. What will happen there.....England with all it's fabulous history.?!?! I worry about the future....

1. "Déséquilibré" (mentally unbalanced) has become synonymous with Muslim. A codename, as "youth". Nearly everyone understands what it means.

2. When a mosque or a synagogue is covered with graffitis, it's a national scandal. Even the prime minister expresses his "horror" of this "ignominious attack" of "our" "Republican values".A church, even a cathedral (Strasbourg, Lille) is devastated ? Not a word, excepted in the local press.

Nothing much changed since the sixth-seventh century, we are witnessing today.

Le Tué, the name of the priest.. How ironic, in this context!tuer - to killtué - killed

@Dr BazookaApproving the work of the religion of peace and barbarismWhat you are pointing out, Dr Bazooka, in No 2, is even more serious than it at first seems, I think. We keep getting the feeling in the here and now, that any vandalism to do with the Church is not paid attention to, which is also the fact. But what this, actually, tells us, is that this is the rule as the Church and the Christians are slowly being exterminated while the Western leaders are standing by with their backs turned, thus approving of the work of the religion of peace and barbarism.

The sanctuary will look a lot better if the cheap and nasty altar that was desecrated is removed completely. The pictures show a beautiful baroque altar that has probably not been used for the past 45 years and Fr Tue can celebrate Mass facing in the correct direction where he will not be distracted by having all the eyes of the congregation. It is worrying that a priest of all people used the word "signify", if that is what he actually said. Hopefully if he starts celebrating Mass properly he will realise that the correct word is "IS".

Yes, no where more than here in the US, "standing with their backs turned" our president is an Islamist of the first degree. With some departments of his cabinet dominated by Muslim appointees and other of kind in key positions in defense and essential departments.

When are we ever going to learn?1. How can we continue addressing the symptoms, but not the disease?2. If the radicals moslems are the players on the field, the moderates are in the grandstands celebrating. How do we differentiate moderate islamics from radical islamics, before innocent blood flows?3. They all share the same ideology moderates, radicals, Hamas, Al Shabaab, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, the Tailban, Abu Sayyaf - the same ideology is preached in all mosques & taught in Islamic schools.Where & when will militant moslems strike next?4. Stop pretending & defending. Expose & annihilate islam once & for all - for humanities sake.5. Politicians & media protect islam? If you look at demonstation in the US, Canada, Sweden, UK – the muslims run rampant with no attempt from the police to curb or protect non-muslims. Why?6. Strong correlation between Halal & zakat funding terrorism, and Saudi money lining politicians pockets.

Interestingly the original altar was left alone, the ugly post-Vatican 2 altar was destroyed. Is this a sign that the priest should celebrate Mass Ad Orientem at the altar with the relic of the saint embedded in the Mensa?

Well, I think after another 10 years, l fale tower will be renamed to burj e ifalea.the flag colour will also become green with moon core........I don't understand why French people digging their own grave with their hands........is all French men becomes shemale?

Well, I think after another 10 years, l fale tower will be renamed to burj e ifalea.the flag colour will also become green with moon core........I don't understand why French people digging their own grave with their hands........is all French men becomes shemale?

Was Gurdjieff a Christian? The orientation of the teaching-is it Christian? Entering the new millennium, some fifty years after Mr. Gurdjieff's passing, it is important to begin to understand the part that Christianity played in his life and in the teaching he brought. hindu priest in Germany

Fairly rowdy, probably two out of ten, for a mad Mohammedan with a broad spectrum of globo-trotskyist supports. Limited results, suppressed perhaps due to the embarrassment of incompetence, still do provide a good physical vantage to onlookers of the immanent consequences of ecumenical egalitarianism.

Perhaps a frustrating moment for Saint-Hyppolyte, or even a little surprising; yet broadly nil damage, compared to the internal structural devastation, such as Vatican 2ew, delivered by brazen semitic conversos in the Curia. It would be interesting, and perhaps inspiring, to hear from Vader Germain Dochy in Kotemark on this incident.

Death To Islam Death To Allah We Must Banish EVERY Single Man Women And Child That Deny Christ We Must Wipe Them From The Face Of Earth This Has Gone On Far Too Long If They Won't Respect Our Culture Our Religion Our Homeland Then Why Should We Respect Theirs We Have Respected Them For Far Too Long It Is Time For This Cancer To Be Eliminated Not Only Through Crusade But We MUST Retake The Holy Land We Will Kill Them At Our Homes We Will Kill Them On The Streets We Will Not Stop Until Every Last One Of Those Sub Human Creatures Is Destroyed We Will Invade Their Home As They Have Done To Us We Will Mass Populate Outnumbering Them 5 To 1 We Will Outsmart Them At Every Turn We Will Conquer Their Land We Will Take Everything And We Will Expand Until We Are The Only One That Remains We Will Remain Diligent And Not Bow To Their False Idols We Will Not Bow To The Moon God Demon That Is Allah We Will Reclaim The Earth Join Me In The 11th And FINAL Crusade DEUS! VULT! May Christ Be With You